- Local radio is crap
- Ad revenue is falling for local media
- The BBC is squeezing local media (and given the lack of investment from local media outlets, can the BEEB be blamed for bridging this market failure?)
- Local radio stations are being hit by the increased level of regulatory oversight - can they afford the fines that national media shrugs off?
- Journalists value national exposure and aren't interested in even writing up local stories for local audiences
- Regional news on TV is underfunded
- ITV is even prepared to abandon it's privileged status as a public service broadcaster because it's PSB obligations (local news included) are perceived to be too expensive.
- Local journalists being squeezed and further disintermediated by a fatal combination of big media and local bloggers.
Does this combination of circumstances fatally undermine all other projects that are intended to improve the quality of democracy?
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Sorry Paulie No. 1 is wrong, though possibly for strange reasons. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, funnier than leaving the Reebok after Bolton have turned over Arsenal or whoever, and then tuning into GMR - BBC Manchester as was- if Man City have lost and listening to their fans vent their "viewpoints". Beats the hell out of Arthur Strong.
Apropos of your Irish post below; has the Official IRA ever been "officially" (sorry) disbanded?
I know a few 'Officials' and being disbanded was never an issue from a political point of view (though the Old Bill often *suggested* that elements were involved in odd bits of criminality including forgery and a few hold-ups).
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